Andrew Carnegie Dbq

Andrew Carnegie was born November 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland. He grew up poor and lived in a small cottage attic with his family. In 1848 the carnegie family made the hard decision to immigrate to the United States. Carnegie was locally famous for decoding messages when he was a telegraph operator. He later worked himself up to being one of the most famous men in business during the late 1800’s. He was also one the wealthiest men of his time and helped transform the steel industry. Andrew Carnegie could be considered to be a hero in many ways. He helped create jobs, transformed the steel industry and also helped other industries, and was an influential philanthropist. Many of the people at the time were poor and living in poverty. There weren't many jobs; and the one that they did have didn't pay enough to sustain a family. The steel industry employed about 168,000 and had higher paying jobs than other industries. According to Document 7 the average daily wage was $ 1.87, even though it didn't sound like much, at the time it was far higher than what other jobs in different industries payed.

He had complete control; vertical integration, Vertical integration is control of the production process from raw material to manufacture and sale of finishes product .He owned Oliver Iron mining Co. that controlled almost all of the mesabi iron fields, owed six ore boats from Pittsburgh steamship company that transferred iron directly to the mills in pittsburgh, an entire port facility and machinery needed for transforming the ore onto trains. He owned everything he needed to manufacture steel for his company, Carnegie was said to be “a pioneer of this business